Question

Question 8 How do you distinguish between a skeletal muscle and a cardiac muscle?

Class - XI - Biology Chapter Locomotion and Movement Page No. 314

Answer 1

★Skeleton muscle :-

→Cells are generally unbranched.
→Intercalated disc is absent in them.
→Voluntry in nature.
→Present in tongue , legs etc.
→Get fatigued in short duration.
→Have alternate light and dark bands.

★Cardiac muscle :-

→Cells are branched.
→Intercalated disc present and helps in the syncronizing and coordination of heart beat.
→Involuntary in nature.
→Present in heart.
→They can not get fatigued.
→Faint bands are present.